{"id":733,"date":"2010-06-28T21:01:28","date_gmt":"2010-06-29T05:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/?p=733"},"modified":"2010-06-28T21:04:28","modified_gmt":"2010-06-29T05:04:28","slug":"backups-really-are-important","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/archives\/733","title":{"rendered":"Backups really are important"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was contacted tonight by someone who had suffered a drive failure and was hoping for some insight on how to resurrect the drive or rescue the data that has potentially been lost.<\/p>\n<p>For the sake of those that may have not thought about backups, please take a moment to back up your data right now. Don&#8217;t worry, I&#8217;ll wait.<\/p>\n<p>While you wait for your first copy to complete, don&#8217;t think you&#8217;re done. Make sure you follow the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wisefaq.com\/2010\/01\/05\/backups-with-the-3-2-1-rule\/\">3-2-1 rule of backup<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>3 backup copies of any data you don&#8217;t want to lose<\/li>\n<li>2 different media types<\/li>\n<li>1 copy at a different location (off-site)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Personally, I recommend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crashplan.com\">CrashPlan<\/a> for backups. It&#8217;s free software for basic use that lets you backup to any other user of CrashPlan (if they agree) over the Internet. Currently, I back up from my main server (the one you&#8217;re reading this on), to the upstairs computer, a machine at work, and to my mother-in-law&#8217;s computer. In the spirit of encouraging safe data, if you have a reasonable amount of data, let me know and I can be a backup destination for you (don&#8217;t worry, I&#8217;d be unable to read the data as it&#8217;s encrypted by the software).<\/p>\n<p>Protect your data, folks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was contacted tonight by someone who had suffered a drive failure and was hoping for some insight on how to resurrect the drive or rescue the data that has potentially been lost. For the sake of those that may &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/archives\/733\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,8,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek","category-thoughts","category-work"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vft-bP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=733"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":736,"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions\/736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}